Nikolai Kapustin

Yeol Eum Son - Nikolai Kapustin: Piano Music (2021)  Music

Posted by ArlegZ at March 16, 2022
Yeol Eum Son - Nikolai Kapustin: Piano Music (2021)

Yeol Eum Son - Nikolai Kapustin: Piano Music (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 227 Mb | Total time: 68:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Onyx Classics | # ONYX4222 | Recorded: 2021

There are many great contemporary composers of our time but few write music that we can relate to so easily and closely as Nikolai Kapustin. His exquisite use of techniques and musical languages of classical and jazz ensures that his music appeals to a wide range of listeners. To those who love classical music but know little about jazz it does not sound too unfamiliar and vice versa. Indeed, it gives great pleasure to even the most untrained ears of either genre of music.
Eckart Runge, Frank Strobel, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin - Kapustin, Schnittke: Cello Concertos (2020)

Eckart Runge, Frank Strobel, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin - Kapustin, Schnittke: Cello Concertos (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 274 Mb | Total time: 69:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Capriccio | # C5362 | Recorded: 2018, 2019

In recent years, the jazz-like, classical and modern music by the Ukrainian composer Nikolai Kapustin (*1937) has become an inside tip on classical concert stages. During a visit to Nikolai Kasputin in Moscow ten years ago, the composer entrusted the cellist Eckart Runge with the notes for his Cello Concerto No. 1 op. 85, which, unlike the second one, had neither been performed nor recorded. The work vibrant with energy combines in unparalleled manner colorful symphonic music with the groovy sound of the big band tradition and the virtuosity of a Charlie Parker with the chamber music intimacy of a Miles Davis into a new and fulminant musical diction.
Nikolai Kapustin - 24 Preludes And Fugues For Piano, Op.82 (2004) {2016 Triton}

Nikolai Kapustin - 24 Preludes And Fugues For Piano, Op.82 (2004) {2016 Triton}
EAC Rip | FLAC with CUE and log | scans | 425 mb
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | RAR | 245 mb
Genre: classical

24 Preludes And Fugues For Piano, Op.82 is a 2004 2CD set by Ukranian pianist Nikolai Kapustin. While the majority of the material is performed by Kapustin, three compositions are joined with Alexander Zagorinsky while three others are with Alexander Chernov. This is from a remaster released by Triton.
A Bu - Nikolai Kapustin / A Bu: New Memories (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

A Bu - Nikolai Kapustin / A Bu: New Memories (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 55:52 minutes | 909 MB
Classical | Label: Wergo, Official Digital Download

The Russian composer Nikolai Kapustin (1937-2020), who died at the beginning of the pandemic-related cultural hiatus which has been unique with regard to world history, was able to experience considerable appreciation in his last two decades, which recently gained more and more momentum.

A Bu - Nikolai Kapustin / A Bu: New Memories (2022)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Oct. 22, 2022
A Bu - Nikolai Kapustin / A Bu: New Memories (2022)

A Bu - Nikolai Kapustin / A Bu: New Memories (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 190 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 132 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:55:52
Classical | Label: Wergo

The Russian composer Nikolai Kapustin (1937-2020), who died at the beginning of the pandemic-related cultural hiatus which has been unique with regard to world history, was able to experience considerable appreciation in his last two decades, which recently gained more and more momentum. Coming from the best Soviet aristocracy of piano teaching - Kapustin was a pupil of a pupil of Horowitz's teacher Blumenfeld and then studied with the great Alexander Goldenweiser until 1961 - he was denied great recognition in the Soviet Union. As with many great piano composers since Chopin, the cycle of concert etudes from the middle of his life is particularly suitable for an introduction to this world of works. Kapustin's typical reference to jazz, which probably kept him from greater success in the Soviet years, is based on the highly individual, deliberate adaptation of stylistic elements. He got to know jazz greats such as Ellington, Basie, Cole, Garner, Peterson and others through records and the radio and picked out what suited him. The extremely sensitive, not monotonously hammering as is so often the case, approach of the Chinese pianist A Bu, who is also trained in jazz, is pleasing with regard to interpretation, and he demonstrates his affinity for Kapustin's music through two samples of his own work.
Immanuel Davis - Nikolai Kapustin: Complete Chamber Works for Flute (2019)

Immanuel Davis - Nikolai Kapustin: Complete Chamber Works for Flute (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) | Tracks: 11 | 63:25 min | 264 MB
Style: Classical | Label: Naxos

Nikolai Kapustin’s music is renowned in contemporary circles for its witty and seamless fusion of jazz idioms and formal classical structures. In recent years, the composer has forged a formidable association with American flautist Immanuel Davis, who here interprets his highly sophisticated Flute Sonata, Op. 125 with great virtuosity. Divertissement explores the different jazz harmonies available from the four instruments, contrasting with the textural transparency of A Little Duo.
Frank Dupree, Rundfunk‐Sinfonieorchester Berlin  & Dominik Beykirch - Kapustin (2023)

Frank Dupree, Rundfunk‐Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Dominik Beykirch - Kapustin: Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 72, Concerto for 2 Pianos & Percussion, Op. 104 & Sinfonietta for Piano 4-Hands, Op. 49 (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 231 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 135 Mb | 00:58:42
Classical | Label: Capriccio

When western audiences discovered the music of Nikolai Kapustin, they were truly shocked: Who was this Soviet (!) composer, whose music sounded more like an Oscar Peterson improvisation than anything else – but who wrote detailed scores, black with notes? As we discover more and more of his music (and there’s so much more yet to discover), a very distinct, always wholly charming voice emerges, whether in a freewheeling outright-jazzy work like his Concerto for 2 Pianos and Percussion, the more symphonic Fifth Piano Concerto, or the frisky Sinfonietta which transports us into a smoky 1940s bar in Manhattan.
Luisa Imorde - Bach & Kapustin: Moon Rainbow (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Luisa Imorde - Bach & Kapustin: Moon Rainbow (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | 1:19:21 | 1.2 Gb
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: front cover

Pianist Luisa Imorde loves innovative combinations: following on from circus dances by Schumann and Widmann and the affair of honour between Woelfl and Beethoven, she now prepares to cast light on Johann Sebastian Bach and Nikolai Kapustin. This is an album whose spectrum ranges from Baroque counterpoint through to polyrhythmic jazz sounds.

Luisa Imorde - Bach & Kapustin: Moon Rainbow (2020)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at March 9, 2020
Luisa Imorde - Bach & Kapustin: Moon Rainbow (2020)

Luisa Imorde - Bach & Kapustin: Moon Rainbow (2020)
FLAC tracks | 01:19:11 | 238 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Berlin Classics

Pianist Luisa Imorde loves innovative combinations: following on from circus dances by Schumann and Widmann and the affair of honour between Woelfl and Beethoven, she now prepares to cast light on Johann Sebastian Bach and Nikolai Kapustin. This is an album whose spectrum ranges from Baroque counterpoint through to polyrhythmic jazz sounds.
Frank Dupree, Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra of Heilbronn & Case Scaglione - Kapustin: Orchestral Works (2021) [24/96]

Frank Dupree, Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra of Heilbronn & Case Scaglione - Kapustin: Orchestral Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 64:04 minutes | 1,23 GB
Classical | Label: Capriccio, Official Digital Download

Pianist Frank Dupree, whose name looks American, is actually a German pianist who was initially trained as a jazz percussionist. That is more important than you might realize because this CD features the music of Nikolai Kapustin, the late Russian composer whose compositions are fully saturated with jazz feeling and swing. Interestingly, Dupree has also made a recording of music by avant-garde composer Peter Eötvös for the Genuin label, so his interest in modern classical music seems to be fairly wide.